Keep in mind that we may not be able to redistribute all jars, which is why we rely on Maven, for better or worse.
-Grant On Dec 9, 2009, at 6:22 PM, David Stuart wrote: > +1 for this. while I'm fine compiling for source this turned out to be > painful when I chose learning mahout as my entertainment on a 4 hour train > journey not much fun using maven via 3G > > David > > On 9 Dec 2009, at 19:29, Drew Farris <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We might consider building separate source release and binary releases, >> following the example from lucene: http://www.apache.org/dist/lucene/java/ >> >> The src release wouldn't be substantially different from what we currently >> distribute as the main release, while the binary release would include >> everything included in the source releases with the exception of the sources >> and the addition of the jars. Wrapping the jars up into a single bundle with >> examples and accompanying documentation would be a nice step forward, >> currently each of the artifacts must be downloaded independently. >> >> <http://www.apache.org/dist/lucene/java/>Drew >> >> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Jake Mannix <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> So another thought on this: should we just provide jars as part of a >>> distribution >>> via a simple link on lucene.apache.org/mahout? >>> >>> So that people don't need to build from source? >>> >>> I mean, if we want to include artifacts, why not just put them on the site >>> for download? >>> >>> -jake >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Drew Farris <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> +1 here too -- I opened >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-215to >>>> track it. >>>> >>>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 11:55 AM, F.Ozgur Catak <[email protected] >>>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> +1 :) >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Jake Mannix <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Isabel Drost <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Tue Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>> Yeah I think we should just include the .jars next time for >>>>>>>> convenience. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> +1 >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> +1 from me as well. >>>>>> >>>>>> -jake >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>
